{"id":156036,"date":"2026-02-15T01:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156036\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:57:08","slug":"man-shot-and-killed-by-fort-lauderdale-police-officers-after-they-responded-to-a-disturbance-call-police-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156036\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot and killed by Fort Lauderdale police officers after they responded to a disturbance call, police chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"> Fort Lauderdale police<\/a>-involved shooting that killed a man.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s police chief said officers responded to a disturbance call at around 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Chateau Park Drive off Northwest 9th Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>He said officers were approached by a man who opened fire on them. That was when the three officers opened fire, striking the suspect. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers performed life-saving efforts until Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue arrived and transported the suspect to Broward Health Medical Center. The suspect, an adult male, was pronounced dead at the hospital,&#8221; said Bill Schultz, the FLPD police chief <\/p>\n<p>According to Schultz, the man killed was not a part of the initial incident that the call was about. <\/p>\n<p>The details of that call are still unclear at this time. <\/p>\n<p>Schultz also noted that the involved officers will be placed on paid leave, pending an internal review, which is policy for their department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating a Fort Lauderdale police-involved shooting that killed a man. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,8999,215],"class_list":{"0":"post-156036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-police","12":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}